Turns out, when professional golfers are allowed to pick their balls up and place them back down nicely in the fairway, they can tear apart a golf course.
That’s been the case at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, where heavy rains earlier in the week prompted tournament officials to allow lift-and-place on any ball that lands in a fairway. The result? Well, Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry and Chris Gotterup shot 7-under 63s on Friday and weren’t even the low rounds of the day. That distinction belongs to Cameron Young, who fired a 62 despite a front-nine bogey.
The chase for the $10 million first-place check, the largest prize in all of golf, has turned into a boat race — one that on Friday left behind world No 1. Scottie Scheffler. Leading the way are Fleetwood and Russell Henley, who both sit at -13 — two shots clear of the field heading into the weekend.
Five shots back is Scheffler, who is trying to become the first back-to-back winner of the Tour’s end-of-season, three-tournament playoff. Scheffler started the day at -7, in second place, finished it at -8 … in sixth.
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